When you are involved in a Milwaukee homicide case, you want to make sure you have a Milwaukee criminal attorney who can handle your case. Homicide cases can get complicated depending on what all the details of the crime are.

Homicide is technically defined as killing another human being. Depending on the circumstances of the accident it will be determined whether or not the act was actually illegal. This is the part that gets complicated. Criminal homicide can be divided into quite a few different categories. Murder is one of the first categories. Murder is considered killing another person on purpose. This is not always included as a criminal homicide depending on state laws and regulations.

The next category is involuntary manslaughter, which can also be divided into groups of its own. There can be voluntary and involuntary manslaughter depending on the situation surrounding the homicide. Like the others, this one can sometimes have its own category depending on what state you’re in and what laws they have that define the different types of homicide.

Criminal homicide also has names that define who was killed during the homicide. This may seem complicated, but it helps to determine more information about what happened during the situation in which the homicide occurred. Parricide means you have killed your father. Matricide means you have killed your mother. Filicide means that you have killed your child and genocide means that you have killed a large group of people for religious, national or ethnic reasons. There are many other types of homicide that help describe the situation and what or who was killed.

Justifiable homicide is slightly different than most of the other homicides described above. Justifiable homicide means that you killed someone as a defense for something that might have been happening to you. This type of homicide is generally recognized as self-defense to protect you and your family. This means that you are allowed to commit murder to defend and protect yourself and your family. This is a defense to make sure you or your family are not harmed. If someone comes into your home with a gun and tries to rob you, you have the right to kill that person because they are trying to hurt you and your family. This is included as self-defense.